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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.

@ Bunk X:
Chess Records didn’t take a breath unless Dixon said so…the Chess brothers owe a lot to Dixon…maybe all of it..and the vid is very cool…Dixon was no hack, and deserved more exposure back then…just look at the list of blues classics he wrote

Willie Dixon filtered the players that came thru Chess…like most companies at that time they literally had a bounty out for great players…guess what?…Dixon brought in Sonny Boy, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, even the Stones…it’s a hell of a story if your interested in music

@ heysoos:
Just look at who recorded his songs. Willie Dixon was virtually unknown to the public, but he left a bigass mark. Bigger than Muddy Waters or Howlin’ Wolf, or Led Zeppelin, or Aerosmith, or The Doors, or… etc.

@ heysoos:
Just look at who recorded his songs. Willie Dixon was virtually unknown to the public, but he left a bigass mark. Bigger than Muddy Waters or Howlin’ Wolf, or Led Zeppelin, or Aerosmith, or The Doors, or… etc.

yes, there is a tree, a history, an anthology…Jimmy Page owes everything to Big Bill Broozny…it’s history and I’m attracted to it…Chess and Dixon are big dogs…really big dogs

@ coldwarrior:
When they performed Moisture live I started asking people “which one of you slipped me the acid”. The bad thing was no one did and the damn cocoon was torn open and all hell broke loose.

Here’s a great tune with some great pics of Duane Allman. He was a month short of his 25th birthday when he died. I’ve often wondered what he would have done over the past 40 years had he lived.
httpv://youtu.be/ezPZxfS1jys

I saw them play at the Hollywood Paladium(really small venue for a band that big) for their Combat Rock tour. It was great. Until then I didn’t know much about them, but was surprised that I had heard so many of their songs that until then I didn’t recognize coming from them.

@ coldwarrior:
I saw them play at the Hollywood Paladium(really small venue for a band that big) for their Combat Rock tour. It was great. Until then I didn’t know much about them, but was surprised that I had heard so many of their songs that until then I didn’t recognize coming from them.

@ Lily:
I remember sneaking into the drive-in. Me and Danny Rat were in the trunk of the car, and our friends thought it would be fun to leave us there while the motor was running to heat the car. We got serious headaches from CO poisoning.

The movie was “Flesh Gordon,” and even today, the thought of penisauruses make my head hurt.

I can hear that. What is amazing about King Crimson is Robert Fripps guitar work and it is fabulous in that song. Take another listen to just the guitar work. The other thing about that song is the verses. Words with A, then B, then C and so on.

@ coldwarrior:
You ever hear the clip from “End Of The Century” where The Clash’s Joe Strummer talked about meeting The Ramones for the first time? Hilarious.
This isn’t it, but it’s cool. Jump to 4:00http://youtu.be/i0J0KC_K34Y?t=4m

As Washington prepares for a political battle over the Obama White House’s proposals to curb gun violence after the Newtown, Conn., shootings, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that the National Rifle Association is more popular than the entertainment industry.

Forty-one percent of adults see the NRA — the nation’s top gun lobby — in a positive light, while 34 percent view it in a negative light.

By comparison, just 24 percent have positive feelings about the entertainment industry, and 39 percent have negative ones.

The NRA’s fav/unfav score is virtually unchanged from its 41 percent-to-29 percent rating in the Jan. 2011 NBC/WSJ poll, nearly two years before the Newtown shootings.

I saw them play at the Hollywood Paladium(really small venue for a band that big) for their Combat Rock tour. It was great. Until then I didn’t know much about them, but was surprised that I had heard so many of their songs that until then I didn’t recognize coming from them.

i saw the Clash twice in LA during my wasted college years. First time at the Palladium for the London Calling tour, second time in some Santa Monica venue IIRC for “Sandinista”. Mikey Dread, a Jamaican dub artist opened for them on the Sandinista tour and I remember a lot to the young CA punks throwing large soda cups at him.

The London Calling concert was awesome. People were packed shoulder to shoulder, pogoing to the music.

@ coldwarrior:
The 90′s stuff was when Wayne LaPierre echoed something that G. Gordon Liddy said which was, to wit, if a federal agent breaks down your door make sure you shoot them in the head.
I used to think that was terrible.

@ unclassifiable:
The early punk movement was not nasty, nor was it intended to be. It was a rebellion against the overproduced corporate crap that was flooding the airwaves, a back-to-the basics movement, back to garage rock, 3 chord stuff. Think rat rods vs. hot rods.

@ huckfunn:
The bottom plane looks like a Curtis Jenny with the wrong markings. Top one may be a SPAD.

No, the top one does not have a long enough fuselage to be a SPAD and the fuselage tapers too extremely from the engine nacelle which is shorter and wider than a SPAD’s. It’s either a Nieuport or a Sopwith Camel. I was going to say the bottom one is a De Haviland, but the Italian roundel had me thinking it could be something else, unless it’s a DeHaviland in Italian colors…the Brits might have supplied them as the Italians were on the side of the Allies in WWI.

@ Bunk X:
I really thought The Ramones started it all but you have some people going all the way back to Mountain as far as its roots (damn big hippie that turned it up to 11 and did not give a single damn).

And here is the strange thing. I was raised in the South so I had all the Southern usuals (Boots Randolph, Al Hurt, who was that clarinet player — I’ll try to remeber him, Buddy Holly, the Allman Brothers, Lynard Skynnard, SRV, ZZ Topp) as my background music. I was always fascinated with other stuff also. Now my taste is so scatter gun I just listen whatever floats my boat. I have Indian Sikh music that will knock your socks off it is so beautiful.

Anyone want to hear the greatest recording of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony ever recorded? I got it and maybe it is out there on the internet.

There is a great BBC/Granada Spanish Civil War documentary on youtube I watched while I was bedridden lately recovering from that damn divertic abcess.

The part I found disturbingly fascinating was the run up to the war, which was marked by street demonstrations of both the right and the left, increasingly hostile political rhetoric on both sides leading to assassinations of public figures. It was the killing of the the conservative parliamentarian Calvo Sotelo by the left that lead to the final decision of Franco and the Generals to launch the uprising.

I should do a post and put together links to all the parts…it’s about 6 hours long but well worth watching.

Leonard Bernstein’s historical concert in celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 has long become almost as legendary as the revolutionary moment that it celebrated. Recorded at the beautiful Schauspielhaus right on Gendarmenmarkt in the centre of Berlin on Christmas 1989, it has now become available on DVD, along with a short documentary film as bonus. The fall of the Berlin Wall on November 1989 unleashed a wave of democratisation in Central and Eastern Europe that radically transformed the world order and Leonard Bernstein spontaneously accepted an invitation to conduct a performance to mark this new era. It was only fitting that East Germany’s new-found freedom should be celebrated with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. The monumental work, perhaps the world’s most famous Symphony, was inspired by Schiller’s poem ‘Ode to Joy’, a passionate eulogy to freedom. Adding to the symbolism of the event, Bernstein conducted an orchestra and chorus formed from musicians from both East and West Germany (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden), as well as the United States (New York Philharmonic), Great Britain (London Symphony), France (Orchestre de Paris) and the Soviet Union (Orchestra of the Kirov Theater).

@ unclassifiable:
The punk movement started in New York at CBGB’s. The proprietors issued a compilation album that included The Ramones, Television and other unsigned bands. Rough, yeah, but it sure beat listening to Emerson Lake & Palmer overproduced wannabes.

One of my college roommates had “Live at CBGB’s.” I wasn’t sure what to make of it, until I heard the Ramones’ “Sheena Is A Punk Rocker.” Those chord patterns hadn’t been used since the early 60s. I loved it.

As of this Monday, my retina is still down and attached. I only have to lay in one position half time now although I’m not going to push it and am spending more time than that. Still under orders to not engage in any activity for the next couple of weeks at least. Prayers are being answered, and for that I am grateful.

i got soooo lucky. the american minister for west berlin needed a driver and one more on security to go into the east…well…i’m it because i own a tux! my ex-father in law made sure i had my own tux for my wedding the year before.

I think that was just the surface level. To me it seems the precursor to all modern political conflict between the right and left. And the factional fighting within both sides was often just as vicious and deadly…especially on the left, like the Communists vs. Anarchists in Barcelona, where George Orwell narrowly escaped being “disappeared” in the Communist purge, and Andre Marty’s (he was a real Stalinist prick) purges of the International Brigade members who were insufficiently doctrinaire.

I started Cardio Rehab this week. I can’t do much of anything and I still hurt ….but I am coming along pretty good. I am moody a lot..but it is because of the surgery. I have to remind myself of that a lot. All my incisions have closed…and I look like I went on a date with Jack the Ripper! LOL! I tire easy…but I survived the worst part…the by-pass and for that I feel blessed. I’m still kicking and apparently God still wants me here on earth. I didn’t get scared till after I got home and every now and then I still feel like WOW…what the hell happened. I also still got a long way to go…but getting there! I am very lucky to say the least.

@ The Osprey:
Yeah! The bottom one is probably a DeHaviland (Moth?) with the box nose. The Curtis Jenny was a long boxy two-seat trainer. I hesitated to ID the top one as a Sopwith as that’s the one popularized by Charles Shultz, but I’ll go with Nieuport.

{{{Calo}}} you are my angel on this….you help me get through the tough parts. I can’t repay for all you have done to help me…you saved me by telling me to get to the doc! The nurse in you is still great and helping people! I can’t thank you enough! Thank you {{Calo}} you have helped me through some rough times. I only hope I can repay the favor.
A song for you: I got my second chance through you.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx4RsCfL_fA

@ Lily:
How is your recovery coming Lily?
As of this Monday, my retina is still down and attached. I only have to lay in one position half time now although I’m not going to push it and am spending more time than that. Still under orders to not engage in any activity for the next couple of weeks at least. Prayers are being answered, and for that I am grateful.

It’s a DeHaviland DH9A. Note the position of the propellor shaft relative to the rest of the radiator, and the fact that the rear gunner sits higher than the pilot in an almost turret like compartment. Now the only question is why the Italian green, white and red roundels and not Royal Airforce blue, white and red, but we are talking stoned hippie album cover artists here not aviation historians…

Cardiac rehab took some work. Plenty of new stuff to learn, getting some strength back, things like that. I’ve been very bad lately about my workouts, but started yesterday with some of the exercise bands for upper body. Back to the exercise bike maybe on Monday- I’ll have to start off very slow and build up again.

@ The Osprey:
I’m going to use that as an excuse for not recognizing it, that the DH9A wasn’t in use until the end of WWI, that it doesn’t wear familiar colors, and was apparently a piece of crap only good for dropping flaming bags of dogshit.

Sunday morning. I read the news, I check some normal sites, I check a few sites for “eesential supplies” and find them unavailable…

I don’t know about anybody else, but I am starting to get a very bad feeling about where this is all headed. Scenarios I would have dismissed as laugheable even only 5 years ago don’t seem quite so funny any more. I am not a happy camper today, I guess.

Sunday morning. I read the news, I check some normal sites, I check a few sites for “eesential supplies” and find them unavailable…

I don’t know about anybody else, but I am starting to get a very bad feeling about where this is all headed. Scenarios I would have dismissed as laugheable even only 5 years ago don’t seem quite so funny any more. I am not a happy camper today, I guess.

Yeah, the inmates are pretty firmly in charge of the asylum now and I’m not seeing any sign that that’ll be changing any time soon.

Sunday morning. I read the news, I check some normal sites, I check a few sites for “eesential supplies” and find them unavailable…
I don’t know about anybody else, but I am starting to get a very bad feeling about where this is all headed. Scenarios I would have dismissed as laugheable even only 5 years ago don’t seem quite so funny any more. I am not a happy camper today, I guess.

Powder Valley still has alliant 1200R, supposed to be a spherical version of 10X and good for .223 up to 55 grains.

I don’t reload. Don’t have the time, space or knowledge. And it’s not just that 5.56 is gone (and 9 mm mostly so). .308 is gone, .30-06 is all but gone. Magazines of almost every description are not only gone, but my favorite vendors aren’t even taking backorders any more.

Maybe we’ll all be laughing about this a year from now. I hope so… Meanwhile, I’ll never order less than a thousand rounds of ammo again.